With this week, we begin the second part of
Lent. We ask more and more deeply to be with and like Jesus.
We desire to celebrate the approaching mystery of our salvation with greater
freedom and greater joy.

Each day's gospel will now be from the Gospel
according to John. We can't avoid the feeling of being in a court
room for a grand trial. There are "witnesses" and "testimony."
It is a battle between the forces of Darkness and the Light. The
opposition to Jesus mounts. It is inevitable that he will be killed.
But, we know that the ultimate Judgment in the trial is against Sin
and Death. We grow in gratitude and grace as we experience more
deeply that this is all "for me."